UC-NRLF 


1 


OF 


Upward 
Footsteps 


Published  by 

The  Christian  Science 
Publishing  Society 


WORKS   ON   CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE 

Written  by  MARY  BAKER  EDDY 

SCIENCE  AND  HEALTH  WITH  KEY  TO  THE  SCRIPTURES. 
In  one  volume,  700  pp.    The  original,  standard,  and  only  text- 
book on  Christian  Science  Mind-healing.    Cloth       .        .  $3  00 

Full  Leather   (same  paper  as  cloth  binding)        .        .        .  4  00 

Morocco   (Oxford  India  Bible  paper) 5  00 

Levant  (heavy  Oxford  India  Bible  paper)      .        .        .        .  6  00 

Large  Type  Edition.      Leather   (Oxford  India  Bible  paper)        .  7  50 

German   Translation.     Cloth S  50 

Pocket  edition 5  60 

MISCELLANEOUS    WRITINGS.     471   pp.     Cloth        .        .        .  2  25 

Morocco    (Oxford   India  Bible  paper) 4  00 

Levant  (Oxford  India  Bible  paper) 5  00 

THE    FIRST    CHURCH     OF     CHRIST,     SCIENTIST.     AND 

MISCELLANY.    364  pp.    Cloth 2  25 

Morocco  (Oxford  India  Bible  paper) 4  00 

CONCORDANCE  TO  SCIENCE  AND  HEALTH.  Morocco  cover  5  00 
CONCORDANCE  TO  MRS.  EDDY'S  PUBLISHED  WRITINGS 

OTHER   THAN  SCIENCE    AND    HEALTH.     Morocco  600 

CHURCH  MANUAL.    Containing  By-laws  of  The  Mother  Church  1  00 

Pocket  edition 2  00 

German  Translation.     Cloth 1  00 

CHRIST  AND  CHRISTMAS.    An  illustrated  poem      .        .        .  3  00 

UNITY  OF  GOOD  AND  OTHER  WRITINGS.      Morocco  cover  3  50 

CHRISTIAN  HEALING  AND  OTHER  WRITINGS.     Morocco  8  50 

RETROSPECTION    AND    INTROSPECTION.     Cloth         .        .  1  00 

UNITY  OF  GOOD.    Library  edition,  cloth.    64  pp.      .        .        .  60 

Pocket  edition,  leather  covers 1  00 

PULPIT  AND  PRESS.    Library  edition,  cloth.    90  pp.       .        .  1  00 

RUDIMENTAL  DIVINE  SCIENCE.  Pebbled  cloth  covers.  17pp.  32 

Library  edition 50 

Printed  in  New  York  point  system  of  type  for  the  blind    .        .  50 

NO  AND  YES.    Pebbled  cloth  covers.    46  pp 32 

Library  edition,  cloth 55 

MESSAGES    TO    THE    MOTHER   CHURCH.     Cloth          .        .  1  50 

CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  vs.  PANTHEISM.   Pebbled  cloth  covers  25 

MESSAGE  TO  THE  MOTHER  CHURCH,   1900.    Paper  covers  25 

MESSAGE  TO  THE  MOTHER  CHURCH,   1901.    Paper  covers  50 

MESSAGE  TO  THE  MOTHER  CHURCH,   1902.    Paper  covers  50 

CHRISTIAN  HEALING  AND  THE  PEOPLE'S  IDEA  OF  GOD  55 

CHRISTIAN  HEALING.     Paper  covers.    20  pp 20 

THE  PEOPLE'S  IDEA  OF  GOD.     Paper  covers.     14  pp.        .  20 

POEMS.    70  pp.,  all  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  hymns  and  her  earlier  poems  1  50 

FEED  MY  SHEEP.    Solo 50 

The  above   prices    are   for    single    copies,    prepaid.      For   quantity 
prices  and  description  see  price  list  furnished  upon  request. 

Address  orders  for  above    works     and    make   remittances  payable  to 
V      ^FWAftT      Falmouth  and  St.  Paul  Streets 

V.    SllLWAKI,            Boston,  Mass.,  U.  S.  A.  8 


UPWARD  FOOTSTEPS 


SEARCH   THE    SCRIPTURES 

4  THE   INHABITANT   SHALL  NOT 

SAY,  I   AM   SICK" 
A   HIGHER    MOTIVE 
THE   VISITANT 
"CONSIDER   THE    LILIES" 
CERTAIN    REQUIREMENTS 
TRUTH    NEVER    FAILS 
"THE   WORDS   OF   MY   MOUTH" 
"TILL   CHRIST   APPEARS" 


Articles  republished  from  the 
Christian  Science  periodicals 


THE  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  PUBLISHING  SOCIETY 

FALMOUTH  AND  ST.  PAUL  STREETS 

BOSTON,   MASSACHUSETTS 

U.  S.  A. 


Copyright,   1910  by 
THE  CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  PUBLISHING  SOCIETY. 


UPWARD    FOOTSTEPS 


SEARCH  THE  SCRIPTURES 

THE  Pharisees  had  searched  the  Scriptures 
diligently.  Their  knowledge  of  the  letter  of 
the  Law,  and  of  the  Prophets,  was  irreproachable. 
Under  the  prophets,  it  must  be  remembered,  they 
included  the  historical  books  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment as  well  as  what  we  are  accustomed  to 
describe  as  the  purely  prophetical  writings,  differ- 
entiating them  as  the  earlier  and  the  later 
prophets,  so  that  their  knowledge  was  historical 
as  well  as  ceremonial.  More  than  this,  they  dwelt 
with  scrupulous  care  on  the  figurative  interpreta- 
tion of  the  text.  This  comes  out  with  remarkable 
clearness  in  the  phrase  "and  the  rest  of  the  acts/' 
which  recurs  persistently  in  the  historical  books 
of  the  Old  Testament.  What  it  means  is  this, 
that  the  Hebrew  chronicler  seized  upon  the  acts, 
no  matter  what  their  insignificance,  in  the  reigns 
of  the  Kings,  from  which  it  was  possible  to  draw 
a  moral  lesson  of  any  sort,  and  recorded  them 
whilst  rejecting  others  which  an  ordinary  chron- 

363210 


4  UPWARD    FOOTSTEPS 

icier  would  have  regarded  as  of  supreme  national 
importance. 

An  example  of  this  occurs  in  the  account  of 
the  reign  of  Omri  which,  in  spite  of  its  being  one 
of  the  greatest  in  the  history  of  Israel,  is  dismissed 
in  four  verses.  "No  historian,"  writes  one  of  the 
finest  living  scholars,  "would  have  dreamt  of 
omitting  all  mention  of  Omri's  conquest  of  Edom, 
which  we  know  from  the  Moabite  stone,  or  of  his 
relations  with  Damascus,  which  we  learn  inci- 
dentally from  the  conversation  between  Ahab  and 
Benhadad  related  in  Kings.  The  natural  infer- 
ence is  that  the  compiler  of  Kings  was  not 
attempting  to  write  a  history  (in  our  sense  of  the 
term),  but  to  give  an  account  of  Jehovah's  deal- 
ings with  Israel,  deriving  his  material  from  docu- 
ments which  he  believed  to  be  historical." 

If  then  the  Jews,  searching  the  Scriptures, 
in  the  light  thrown  upon  them  by  their  recognition 
of  the  spiritual  lessons  conveyed  through  the  his- 
torical elements  of  the  text,  failed  to  find  in  them 
the  testimony  of  the  Christ;  if  Christendom,  with 
the  additional  evidence  of  the  New  Testament  in 
its  hands,  and  with  the  labors  of  generations  of 
the  most  brilliant  scholars  to  guide  it,  could  not 
get  a  view  of  eternal  Life  very  much  more  clear 
or  practical  than  that  of  the  Jews;  but,  if  a 
Syrian  carpenter,  of  whom  the  Jews  themselves 
"marvelled,  saying,  How  knoweth  this  man  let- 
ters, having  never  learned?"  could  teach  a  handful 
of  Syrian  peasants,  from  the  pages  of  these  very 


SEARCH   THE   SCRIPTURES  5 

Scriptures,  the  secret  of  the  Christ  is  it  not 
manifest  that  the  searching  must  be  done  less 
intellectually  and  with  more  humility,  less  mate- 
rially and  more  spiritually  ? 

In  a  word,  mankind,  in  order  to  be  successful 
in  its  search,  must  learn  that,  in  the  words  of  Mrs. 
Eddy,  on  page  320  of  "Science  and  Health  with 
Key  to  the  Scriptures,"  "The  one  important  inter- 
pretation of  Scripture  is  the  spiritual ;"  and  must 
turn  aside  from  literary  and  critical  specula- 
tion, however  engrossing,  and  from  historical 
researches,  however  interesting,  to  search  the 
Scriptures  as  Jesus  searched  them,  with  an  inter- 
est shorn  of  materiality,  and  intent  on  spirituality. 
It  was  because  Mrs.  Eddy  searched  the  Scriptures 
in  this  way  that  she  learned  from  them  the  secret 
of  the  teachings  of  Christ  Jesus,  knowing  that  in 
them  we  have  eternal  Life;  for  he  said  to  his 
disciples,  on  the  eve  of  the  crucifixion,  "This  is 
Life  eternal,  that  they  might  know  thee  the  only 
true  God,  and  Jesus  Christ,  whom  thou  hast  sent." 

Spiritual  things,  Paul  told  the  Corinthians, 
are  spiritually  discerned;  and  that  saying  is  as 
true  anywhere  in  the  world  today  as  it  was  in 
Corinth  in  the  first  century.  If  any  man  wishes 
to  discern  the  spiritual  meaning  of  the  Bible  he 
will  have  to  train  himself  not  intellectually  but 
spiritually.  He  will  have,  that  is  to  say,  to  accept 
the  standpoint  of  the  Galilean  hillside  in  prefer- 
ence to  that  of  the  universities,  and  to  learn  that 
there  is  one  intelligence,  not  many,  and  to  demon- 


6  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

strate  his  knowledge  not  in  theological  theories, 
but  in  Christian  healing.  In  the  religion  of  Christ 
Jesus  theory  is  inseparable  from  practice,  under- 
standing from  demonstration,  preaching  the 
gospel  from  healing  the  sick.  The  early  Jewish 
Christians  healed  the  sick,  not  because  they  were 
more  conversant  with  the  Law  and  the  Prophets 
than  the  Pharisees,  but  because  they  understood 
the  Law  and  the  Prophets  in  the  light  of  the 
spiritual  explanation  of  Christ  Jesus. 

The  Christian  Science  church  is  healing  the 
sick  today  not  because  of  a  knowledge  of  the 
Bible  intellectually  superior  to  that  of  the  ortho- 
dox churches,  but  through  a  spiritual  understand- 
ing of  the  text  derived  from  a  study  of  the  Chris- 
tian Science  text-book,  "Science  and  Health  with 
Key  to  the  Scriptures"  by  Mrs.  Eddy.  The  tree 
is  known  by  its  fruits,  the  value  of  a  theory tby 
its  practice.  A  practical  Christianity  has  to  be 
tested  by  the  practice  of  Christ  Jesus.  He  said 
preach  the  gospel  and  heal  the  sick,  but  he  also 
said  search  the  Scriptures.  The  Discoverer  and 
Founder  of  Christian  Science  succeeded  because 
she  obeyed  him  at  all  points.  Her  search  was  de- 
voted not  to  an  intellectual  study  of  a  historical 
document,  but  to  spiritual  pondering  over  a  figura- 
tive one,  and  in  her  own  words  on  page  109  of 
Science  and  Health  she  won  her  "way  to  absolute 
conclusions  through  divine  revelation,  reason, 
and  demonstration." 


'THE   INHABITANT   SHALL   NOT   SAY, 
I    AM    SICK." 


"You  are  sick,"  they  said.     "But  that  isn't  the 

truth" 

And  the  woman  shook  her  head. 
"The  Bible  declares,  he  that  dwelleth  in  God' 

Shall  not  say,  I  am  sick,"  she  said. 
And  she  held  to  the  truth  thro'  a  starless  night, 
Till  the  morning  proved  that  her  words  were 
right. 

"You  are  tired,"  they  said.  But  she  smiled  at  that. 

"How  can  I  be  tired,"  said  she, 
"When  the  only  work  is  work  for  God, 

And  He  is  my  Life,  you  see?" 
And  she  quietly  went  her  busy  way, 
With  a  happy  song  in  her  heart  all  day. 

"You  are  poor,"  they  said.    But  she  only  thought, 

How  little  they  know !    God  speed 
The  day  when  the  world  awakes  to  find 

That  Love  is  its  only  need. 
And  she  still  maintained,  as  her  fortune  grew, 
Not  money,  but  Love — if  they  only  knew ! 

7 


8  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

"You're  afraid,"  they  said.     But  she  whispered 
low, 

As  if  talking  to  some  one  near, 
"Father,  since  Love  is  the  only  power, 

What  is  there  left  to  fear.?" 
And  giving  her  hand  to  that  unseen  guide, 
She  crossed  through  the  waters  at  His  side. 

"You  are  sad,"  they  said.  But  a  brave  heart  shone 
Through  the  glimmer  of  tears  unshed ; 

And  the  answer  came,  "We  are  told  to  rejoice, 
To  rejoice  evermore,"  she  said. 

And  she  faced  her  grief  with  such  steady  eyes 

That  the  world  looked  on  in  a  dazed  surprise ; 

For  the  world  knows  not  of  the  peace  that  comes 

To  a  soul  at-one  with  God. 
It  is  only  those  who  are  toiling  on 

In  the  path  the  Master  trod, 
Who  can  feel,  through  the  dark,  that  loving  hand, 
And,  holding  it  fast,  can  understand. 


A  HIGHER  MOTIVE. 


THAT  some  motive  power  is  essential  for 
the  advancement  of  human  life  is  evident. 
The  common  prescription  for  this  need  is  ambi- 
tion. Yet  among  all  the  qualities  which  the 
world  thinks  essential  to  a  progressive  life,  none 
is  more  prolific  of  mischief,  or  more  difficult  to 
hold  in  bounds,  than  this.  That  some  expres- 
sions of  this  quality  are  better  than  others,  that 
some  forms  are  highly  creditable,  may  be  granted. 
But  the  fact  remains  that,  for  the  most  part 
ambition  is  simply  one  form  or  another  of  self- 
assertion,  an  emphasis  of  personal  desire  or 
selfish  ends  which  slights  half  the  problem  of  use- 
fulness, and  so  tends  to  separate  and  to  antag- 
onize men. 

The  supplanting  of  ambition  by  a  higher  motive 
is  one  of  the  distinctive  and  peculiar  works  of 
Christian  Science.  It  surely  is  not  to  be  expected 
that  humanity  will  put  away  the  lesser  or  un- 
worthy motive,  and  resign  itself  to  divine  guid- 
ance and  control,  until  it  is  satisfied  that  it  is 
yielding  to  a  saner  and  more  promising  inspira- 

9 


io  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

tion  than  it  believes  itself  to  possess  in  its  own 
desires.  That  such  a  change  of  motive  power  is 
possible  and  in  every  way  desirable,  the  Discov- 
erer and  Founder  of  Christian  Science  has  estab- 
lished, by  showing  that  this  process  is  merely  the 
relinquishment  of  a  sense  of  limitation  and  ma- 
terial handicap,  of  self-dependence  and  self-love, 
and  the  yielding  of  one's  thought  to  the  self- 
expression  and  self-assertion  of  divine  Mind. 

The  greatness  of  Jesus  was  not  the  greatness  of 
his  ambition,  it  was  his  responsiveness  to  divine 
impulse.  The  measure  of  any  man's  greatness,  of 
any  man's  usefulness,  is  the  measure  of  his  readi- 
ness and  fidelity  of  response  to  this  same  impul- 
sion. Men  but  trifle  with  their  problem  and  steril- 
ize their  own  efforts,  by  thinking  that  spiritual 
harmony,  the  groundwork  of  true  service,  can  be 
promoted  through  self-seeking.  This  is  a  king- 
dom divided  against  itself,  in  which  a  legitimate 
desire  for  usefulness  gives  place  to  an  unworthy 
ambition  to  be  conspicuous  for  usefulness,  to  a 
desire  for  approval  before  approval  is  earned. 

The  divine  impulsion  is  direct  in  action  and 
effect,  and  divine  approval  neither  waits  on  nor 
follows  human  applause  or  individual  compla- 
cency. The  qualities  of  mental  alertness  and 
acumen,  of  mental  strength,  adaptability,  and 
productiveness,  are  not  resultants  of  ambition. 
Jesus  possessed  all  these  qualities  in  large  degree, 
and  yet  was  without  worldly  ambition.  "I  must 


A   HIGHER   MOTIVE  II 

be  about  my  Father's  business"  represents  the 
divine  impulsion  which  controlled  him,  which  en- 
abled him  to  demonstrate  his  highest  usefulness. 

Ambition  builds  its  mental  structure  largely 
on  the  quicksands  of  human  will,  self-dependence, 
and  conceit ;  it  outlines  and  thereby  limits  its  own 
future  good,  by  viewing  it  from  a  standpoint  of 
present  ignorance;  and  it  labors  that  it  may 
satisfy  its  own  desire.  True  usefulness  develops 
from  a  basis  of  intuition,  hope,  and  faith,  unfolds 
in  response  to  spiritual  impulse,  affection,  and 
desire,  learns  to  "trust  in  Truth,  and  have  no 
other  trusts"  (Mrs.  Eddy,  in  The  Christian 
Science  Sentinel,  July  4,  1903),  and  asks  only 
that  His  will  be  done.  Such  prayer  answers  it- 
self by  bringing  consciousness  into  accord  with 
that  Mind  which  is  reflected  humanly  in  courage, 
efficiency,  and  power,  in  those  qualities  which 
promise  and  procure  success. 

Spiritual  intuition  is  not  guesswork.  Spiritual 
hope  is  not  uncertain  longing.  Faith  is  not  mere 
hope  multiplied  by  itself.  These  qualities  are 
positive  expressions  of  mental  power;  they  stand 
for  expectation,  for  confidence,  for  spiritual-mind- 
edness, — for  the  onward  sweep  of  divine  revela- 
tion in  human  thought.  The  expectant  thought 
is  the  progressive  thought,  prepared  for  grasp  of 
opportunity  and  for  increase  of  good.  True  ex- 
pectancy stifles  the  cramping  notion  of  a  world 
of  grasping,  self-centered  units,  against  which  is 


12  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

ranged  a  horde  of  unfriendly  forces  in  combat, 
and  compels  the  stimulating  conviction  that  all 
the  forces  of  God's  universe  are  cooperating  with 
the  man  who  seeks  to  do  God's  will. 

The  survival  of  the  fittest  is  not  the  exaltation 
of  one  and  the  extinction  of  many,  is  not  the 
placing  or  displacing  of  individuals.  It  is  the 
survival  of  those  qualities  in  men  which  are 
fit  to  survive,  those  qualities  which  reflect1  the 
divine  Mind  and  must  survive.  Such  continuance 
is  not  promoted  by  mental  push  and  pull,  but 
rather  through  the  cultivation  of  those  human 
virtues  which  are  expressive  of  the  stability  of 
divine  Mind. 

Spiritual  expectancy  faces  the  future,  but  it 
must  work  in  the  present.  Hope  and  faith  are 
transitional  qualities  whose  logical  consequents 
are  spiritual  understanding  and  power.  The  day 
of  understanding  must  eclipse  that  of  faith  and 
hope,  since  to  understand  spiritually  is  to  possess, 
and  "what  a  man  seeth,  why  doth  he  yet  hope 
for?"  But  first,  patience  must  have  her  perfect 
work,  and  the  perfection  of  humanity  necessitates 
the  unity  of  its  mass,  quite  as  much  as  it  does 
the  perfection  of  its  units.  This  is  the  antipode 
of  self-seeking.  True  dominion  is  broadly  con- 
structive, working  out  the  salvation  of  the  in- 
dividual in  accordance  with  Principle,  by  which 
the  good  of  all  is  equally  secured.  Ambition  seeks 
to  fatten  itself,  generally  at  its  fellows'  expense. 


A   HIGHER   MOTIVE  13 

Mrs.  Eddy  has  written  that  "the  last  infirmity 
of  evil  is  so-called  man,  swayed  by  the  maelstrom 
of  human  passions,  elbowing  the  concepts  of  his 
own  creating,  making  place  for  himself  and  dis- 
placing his  fellows"  (Miscellaneous  Writings, 
p.  294). 

No  religious  teacher  since  Jesus  has  dared  such 
exalted  spiritual  hope  as  has  the  Leader  of  the 
Christian  Science  movement.  There  is  no  people 
with  such  reason  for  buoyant  and  confident  ex- 
pectancy as  those  who  seek  the  dominion  which 
her  discoveries  make  possible.  The  obligations 
of  this  hope  must  be  equally  clear :  that  her  bene- 
ficiaries accept  with  all  devotion  and  sincerity  the 
necessities  of  spiritual  growth,  including  the  stern 
discipline  of  self-control,  of  true  usefulness,  and 
of  impersonal  service,  free  from  all  taint  of  self- 
seeking,  self-dependence,  or  conceit. 


•     THE  VISITANT. 


in  might,  Love  knocks  at  your  gate — 
Love  urgent  of  voice  and  tender  of  eye. 
Think  not  it  is  night  and  He  comes  too  late ; 
'Tis  always  morning  when  Love  draws  nigh. 

Though  bleak  is  the  blast  on  the  lonely  wold 
And  the  fickle  sky  has  forgotten  the  sun, 

Lone  watcher,  nor  gray  is  the  hour  nor  cold ; 
Love  and  the  glory  of  summer  are  one. 

Though  the  fangs  of  fear  and  smothery  woe 
You  feel,  though  wounds  and  memories  smart, 

Throw  open  your  gate  that  you  may  know 
Content  and  the  voice  of  a  harp  in  your  heart. 

Loosen  the  latch  and  lower  the  bar 

Which  shut  in  gloom  and  the  ghosts  of  sin; 

Love  waits  to  lay  the  light  of  a  star 

And  the  visioned  joy  of  wisdom  within. 

From  the  pleasance  of  peace  at  the  call  of  your 
need 

Love  comes  on  swift  and  exultant  wings; 
Throw  open  your  gate  and  His  message  heed, 

For  heaven  is  ever  the  gift  Love  brings. 


'  CONSIDER    THE    LILIES." 


PONDERING  the  promise  of  supply  so  well 
illustrated  by  our  Master,  as  given  in  the 
sixth  chapter  of  Matthew's  Gospel,  I  was  recently 
impressed  by  the  simile  in  a  way  which  to  me 
was  new  and  beautiful.  That  God's  justice  is 
also  all-merciful  is  discerned  only  as  the  divine 
idea,  that  God  is  Love,  dawns  upon  the  human 
thought.  The  loving  care  here  illustrated  has 
always  been  quite  evident,  but  the  part  taken  by 
the  lilies  in  deserving  this  protection  had  never 
before  come  to  me  so  strongly. 

Perhaps  Jesus  chose  such  a  beautiful  subject  in 
order  to  point  out  the  fact  that  the  law  of  reflec- 
tion was  here  fulfilled,  that  the  flowers  did  their 
part  in  expressing  God's  qualities,  and  so  beau- 
tifying the  earth.  Gently  breathing  into  the  sur- 
rounding atmosphere  the  beauty  and  fragrance 
betokening  God's  natural  love,  they  quietly  depend 
upon  divine  law  for  their  very  being.  Mrs.  Eddy 
says,  "Whatever  holds  human  thought  in  line 
with  unselfed  love,  receives  directly  the  divine 
power"  (Science  and  Health,  p.  192). 
IS 


16  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

It  remains  only  for  us  to  make  use  of  this 
teaching.  The  law  of  supply  demands  that  we 
express  the  qualities  of  divine  Mind,  thus  shed- 
ding upon  all  within  the  radius  of  our  atmosphere 
of  thought  the  purity  and  love  illustrating  and 
demonstrating  man's  divine  sonship.  This  is 
our  part  in  God's  program.  This  is  the  require- 
ment of  divine  Principle.  It  is  far  from  a  lazy 
reliance  upon  an  unknown  benefactor,  but  is  a 
recognition  and  active  fulfilment  of  eternal  law. 
C  Every  idea  of  God  is  designed  to  reflect  Love, 
and  under  these  conditions  all  are  bountifully 
supplied. 


CERTAIN    REQUIREMENTS. 


THE  question  is  often  asked,  "What  are  the 
qualifications  for  a  practitioner  of  Chris- 
tian Science?"  and  in  trying  to  answer  this  ques- 
tion it  may  be  well  to  define  the  term  Christian 
Science.  No  one  can  do  this  as  clearly  as  has 
Mrs.  Eddy,  the  Discoverer  and  Founder  of 
Christian  Science  and  its  pioneer  practitioner. 

In   "Rudimental   Divine   Science/'    in   answer 
to  the  question  "How  would  you  define  Christian 
Science?"  she  says,  "As  the  law  of  God,  the  law? 
of    good,    interpreting    and    demonstrating    the( 
divine  Principle  and  rule  of  universal  harmony."/ 
In  Science  and  Health  she  writes:   "The  term 
Science,  properly  understood,  refers  only  to  the 
laws   of    God   and   to    His   government   of   the  ) 
universe,  inclusive  of  man."  "The  term  Christian 
Science  relates  especially  to  Science  as  applied  to 
humanity"    (pp.  128,  127).     Again,  in  "Retro- 
spection and  Introspection,"  we  read :  "I  named 
it  Christian,  because  it  is  compassionate,  helpful, 
and  spiritual"  (p.  25).     From  all  this  it  will  be 
seen   that   the   requirements    for   practising  this 

17 


18  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

Science  are  not  superficial.  They  must  reach  to 
the  depths  of  one's  nature  and  exact  the  final 
destruction  of  all  that  is  not  Christian,  not  based 
on  divine  Principle. 

The  first  necessity  is  honesty,  absolute  integ- 
rity of  thought.  A  certain  frankness  in  surface 
relations  with  others  is  considered  honesty  by 
many.  Such  persons  may  not  consciously  cheat. 
lie,  nor  steal,  yet  they  constantly  deceive  them- 
.  selves  regarding  their  motives  and  desires.  Self- 
ishness largely  actuates  their  acts  of  supposed 
kindness  and  charity.  This  being  the  case,  there 
is  need  for  each  one  to  obey  the  terse  injunction 
of  the  old  Greek,  "Know  thyself!''  There  are 
two  ways  in  which  one  must  know  himself.  He 
must  be  able  to  recognize  his  faults,  weaknesses, 
and  sins.  He  must  also  comprehend  in  some 
degree  the  actuality  of  his  true  being  as  the  per- 
fect expression  of  divine  Mind,  God's  own  image 
and  likeness.  This  knowledge  of  himself  enables 
one  to  overcome  human  weaknesses  and  manifest 
in  their  stead  the  qualities  of  God. 

The  right  motive  for  the  practice  of  Chris- 
tian Science  is  the  establishment  of  God's  king- 
dom, here  and  now,  through  the  elimination  of 
all  evil  in  our  consciousness.  One  must  intelli- 
gently study  the  Bible  and  "Science  and  Health 
with  Key  to  the  Scriptures"  in  order  to  form  a 
concept  of  Life  from  the  standpoint  of  Spirit. 
The  spiritual  concept  of  Life  and  man  is  the  basis 


CERTAIN   REQUIREMENTS  ig 

of  true  healing.  One  learns  from  Mrs.  Eddy's 
teachings  that  the  process  of  Christian  Science  - 
practice  is  moral  and  spiritual,  not  coldly  intellect- 
ual and"  formal.  This  is  the  point  not  grasped  by 
some  philosophers  who  criticize  Christian  Science. 
In  their  pursuit  of  a  philosophy  based  on  the 
human  mind,  they  have  overlooked  the  fact  that 
there  is  a  spiritual  philosophy  which  transcends 
the  human  mind  and  can  be  grasped  only  as  the 
human  mind  becomes  meek  and  exchanges  its 
limitations  for  the  boundless  unfoldments  of 
Spirit. 

Broad-minded  compassion  and  much  patience 
are  needed  to  deal  rightly  with  the  sick  and  sin- 
ning. Each  day  one  needs  to  seek  a  deeper  in- 
sight into  the  ways  and  means  of  Spirit.  He 
should  expect  and  be  content  with  nothing  less 
than  a  manifest  and  continuous  growth  in  the 
understanding  of  God,  as  shown  by  the  ability  to 
apply  this  understanding  to  the  problems  of  daily 
living.  The  inspiration  of  today  will  not  serve} 
for  tomorrow,  unless  it  is  increased  and  deepened.? 
It  is  well  to  take  time  for  self-examination  andJ 
self -correct  ion.  The  ignorance  of  the  human 
mind  is  not  overcome  by  ignoring  it,  but  by 
acquiring  knowledge  of  the  divine  Mind. 

The  practitioner  must  prove  by  his  work  that 
Christian  Science  is  not  personal  magnetism.  He 
must  guard  against  fear,  self-will,  self-seeking, 
and  conceit,  for  these  prevent  progress.  Worldly 


20  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

success  and  high-sounding  talk  do  not  bear  wit- 
ness to  a  real  Christian  Science  practitioner, 
neither  do  mock  humility  and  puritanical  pretense. 
The  witness  to  real  success  is  healing — disease 
banished,  grief  assuaged,  discordant  homes  made 
happy,  and  sin  overcome.  In  the  serene  activities 
of  good  and  in  the  eradication  of  every  thought 
of  self-aggrandizement,  the  Christian  Science 
practitioner  gains  dominion  over  human  beliefs. 


TRUTH  NEVER  FAILS. 


THE  work  of  Christian  Science  is  salvation.^ 
Full  and  complete  salvation  is  the  attain- 
ment of  perfect  spiritual  consciousness,  made  up 
of  divine  ideas,  and  this  consciousness  we  know 
is  only  reached  by  the  disappearing  of  the  false 
material  beliefs  which  m^e^  up  the  mortal  or 
supposititious  consciousness.  The  efficacy  of  a 
Christian  Science  treatment  is  determined  by  the 
measure  of  the  attainment  of  this  spiritual  con- 
sciousness. It  heals  because  its  thoughts  are 
God's  thoughts ;  God  is  their  Principle  and  power ; 
God  invests  them  with  authority.  A  God-in- 
vested thought  cannot  fail,  it  must  be  the  an- 
nihilation of  the  supposititious  opposing  material 
concept. 

There  are  grades  of  human  belief,  and  a  better 
belief  yields  itself  more  readily  to  the  divine  idea.] 
This  better  belief  indeed  is  the  first  evidence  of 
the  recognition  of  its  own  falsity,  and  the  first 
step  in  that  betterment  process  which  means  its 
ultimate  disappearance.  Physical  healing  is 
often  the  first  manifestation  of  an  improved 
belief,  but  not  always;  it  may  even  sometimes 

21 


22  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

seem  to  be  the  last.  This  physical  healing,  for 
which  suffering  mortal  sense  cries  out,  may  be 
deferred  until  many  other  beliefs  have  been  "im- 
proved" and  brought  into  subjection.  Our  work 
in  Christian  Science  is  to  reach  heaven, — immor- 
tality, eternal  peace  and  joy;  to  attain  to  the  per- 
fect consciousness  wherein  nothing  can  enter  that 
defileth  or  maketh  a  lie,  wherein  is  no  concept  of 
sin,  disease,  or  death.  Physical  healing  is  only 
an  incident  in  this  work,  and  if  it  be  our  only  aim, 
the  work  is  incomplete  and  falls  far  short  of  being 
our  Father's  business. 

Even  if,  in  this  betterment  process,  the  human 
consciousness  passes  through  the  shadow  it  has 
named  death,  no  one  need  be  discouraged  with  a 
sense  of  failure.  Death  is  but  a  phase  of  the 
belief  of  life  in  matter;  and  although  it  is  an 
error  which  must  be  finally  overcome,  our  Leader 
has  said  that  "the  Christian  Scientist  who  believes 
that  he  dies,  gains  a  rich  blessing  of  disbelief  in 
death,  and  a  higher  realization  of  heaven" 
(Christian  Science  Sentinel,  Sept.  4,  1909).  Our 
work  in  Christian  Science  is  for  eternity.  No 
matter  what  material  sense  may  declare,  no 
matter  what  evidences  it  may  seem  to  present, 
our  work  is  to  know  that  it  only  presents  evidence 
to  itself,  not  to  Truth — not  to  Spirit — not  to  God, 
nor  to  God's  man.  Our  work  is  to  know  the 
truth,  and  to  know  that  the  fruit  of  this  knowing 
must  be  healing.  The  work  is  in  our  own  con- 


TRUTH    NEVER   FAILS  23 

sciousness,  and  we  must  begin  to  enter  the  king- 
dom of  heaven  now.  If  we  have  aught  against 
our  brother,  any  belief  in  the  reality  of  his  dis- 
ease or  death,  we  must  first  gain  the  true  idea  of 
man  as  God's  child,  perfect  and  pure,  sinless  and 
deathless,  before  we  can  bring  our  gift  of  healing 
to  the  altar. 


"THE  WORDS  OF  MY  MOUTH/ 


CHRISTIAN  SCIENCE  is  proclaiming  anew 
to  the  world  the  truth  that  if  it  would  ever 
know  freedom  from  disease  and  bondage,  from 
weight  and  woe,  it  must  obey  the  command  of 
Scripture,  "Be  ye  holy  in  all  manner  of  conversa- 
tion." Health  and  joy,  peace  and  prosperity,  are 
unobtainable  without  it.  "But,"  says  one,  "what 
relation  does  my  conversation  bear  to  my  happi- 
ness and  health  ?"  A  most  important  one,  for  our 
conversation  is  an  expression  of  our  thought, 
and  our  thought  governs  our  bodies  and  circum- 
stances. 

God  is  All,  and  has  made  all  good  like  Himself. 
Therefore  nothing  really  exists  to  talk  about 
apart  from  His  all-perfect  creation,  the  joy, 
health,  and  holiness  which  He  has  ordained. 
To  talk  of  the  supposititious  opposite  of  God, 
good,  expressed  as  disease  and  sin,  discord  and 
horror,  is  to  dishonor  Him  and  break  the  First 
Commandment,  "Thou  shalt  have  no  other  gods 
before  me."  Therefore  it  is  a  part  of  the  Chris- 
tian Scientist's  religious  duty  to  talk  of  that  which 
is  helpful  and  spiritual,  immortal  and  true,  and 
24 


"THE  WORDS   OF   MY   MOUTH"  25 

he  knows  that  he  is  breaking  a  divine  command 
when  judging,  criticizing,  condemning,  or  talking 
of  the  imperfections  expressed  through  the  mortal 
sense  of  personality.  Paul's  injunction,  "Be  thou 
an  example  of  the  believers,  in  word,  in  conversa- 
tion, in  charity,  in  spirit,  in  faith,  in  purity," 
becomes  his  watchword. 

Through  all  the  writings  of  Mrs.  Eddy  we 
find  the  thought  expressed  that  it  is  inadmissible 
to  repeat  error  of  any  kind,  unless  it  becomes 
absolutely  necessary  to  uncover  and  destroy 
wrong.  In  "Miscellaneous  Writings"  (p.  346) 
she  says,  "It  is  a  rule  in  Christian  Science  never 
to  repeat  error  unless  it  becomes  requisite  to  bring 
out  Truth."  How  seldom  is  it  really  necessary  to 
voice  error  in  order  to  bring  out  the  truth !  It  is 
helpful,  before  naming  any  discord,  to.  remember 
this  rule  and  ask  one's  self  if  one's  only  thought 
in  speaking  is  to  lessen  the  trouble  that  should  be 
overcome.  The  real  Christian  Scientist  has  but 
one  desire,  to  decrease  all  forms  of  evil;  he  is 
always  obedient  to  the  command,  "Thou  shalt 
not  bear  false  witness." 

Paul  writes,  "Let  no  corrupt  communication 
proceed  out  of  your  mouth,  but  that  which  is  good 
to  the  use  of  edifying,  that  it  may  minister  grace 
unto  the  hearers."  Conversation  about  disease 
and  sin  surely  does  not  edify,  nor  "minister  grace 
unto  the  hearers."  When  we  realize  that  error 
has  no  origin  in  God, — the  only  creator, — we  see 
that  all  its  supposed  operation  is  false  and  fleeting, 


26  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

and  not  worthy  of  conversation.  Without  strict 
obedience  to  the  apostle's  injunction,  "Whatsoever 
things  are  true,  whatsoever  things  are  honest, 
whatsoever  things  are  just,  whatsoever  things  are 
pure,  whatsoever  things  are  lovely,  whatsoever 
things  are  of  good  report;  if  there  be  any  virtue, 
and  if  there  be  any  praise,  think  on  these  things/' 
we  can  never  hope  to  be  "holy  in  all  manner  of 
conversation." 

We  find  in  Scripture  this  startling  statement, 
"To  him  that  ordereth  his  conversation  aright  will 
I  shew  the  salvation  of  God."  The  dictionary 
defines  salvation  as  preservation,  deliverance.  He, 
then,  who  orders  his  conversation  aright  shall  be 
delivered  from  evil.  We  might  turn  this  about 
and  say,  He  that  does  not  order  his  conversation 
aright,  but  talks  of  a  supposed  power  apart  from 
good,  of  disease  and  error,  shall  be  led  into  captiv- 
ity because  of  it.  The  wise  man  said,  "There  is 
that  speaketh  like  the  piercings  of  a  sword : 
but  the  tongue  of  the  wise  is  health."  And  not 
only  is  it  health,  but  life,  for  we  read  again,  "A 
wholesome  tongue  is  a  tree  of  life." 

In  Christian  Science  patient  after  patient  has 
been  delivered  from  deepest  affliction  when  he  has 
ordered  his  conversation  aright  by  absolutely 
refusing  to  sigh  over  his  sorrows,  or  talk  of  his 
symptoms  or  any  discord,  and  by  faithfully  declar- 
ing God's  allness, — talking  only  of  that  which  is 
beautiful,  brave,  and  fair.  Jesus  was  our  example 
in  this  as  in  all  other  things.  He  said,  "The  words 


"THE  WORDS   OF   MY   MOUTH"  27 

that  I  speak  unto  you,  they  are  spirit,  and  they  are 
life."  Again  he  said,  "Now  ye  are  clean  through 
the  word  which  I  have  spoken  unto  you."  Jesus 
had  nothing  in  common  with  the  conversation  of 
the  world.  At  all  times  he  spoke  the  word  of  Life 
which  banished  the  diseased  mind-pictures,  and 
thus  he  lifted  his  hearers  into  health  and  holiness. 
As  we  think  of  how  the  word  of  God  restored  the 
withered  arm  and  caused  the  blind  to  see  in  the 
days  of  Jesus,  and  remember  that  Truth  is  the 
same  throughout  all  time,  we  may  see  the  possi- 
bilities of  holy  conversation. 

On  no  one  point  is  humanity  more  tempted 
than  in  the  matter  of  voicing  imperfection.  To 
keep  our  "conversation  in  heaven,"  as  Paul  ex- 
presses it,  requires  thought  to  abide  in  heaven;  it 
requires  constant  watchfulness  and  constant 
prayer;  the  striving  of  yesterday  is  not  sufficient 
for  the  temptations  of  today.  When  one  thinks 
of  the  burdens  that  would  be  lifted,  and  the  joy 
and  peace  that  would  be  known  on  earth  if  men 
never  spake  but  to  voice  the  truth  of  God's  good- 
ness, the  brotherhood  of  man,  the  power  and 
reality  of  justice,  the  joy  and  health  of  holiness, 
he  can  but  resolve  anew  to  be  obedient  to  the  com- 
mand, "Be  ye  holy  in  all  manner  of  conversation," 
and  with  repentance  for  past  failures,  pray  with 
the  psalmist,  "Let  the  words  of  my  mouth, 
and  the  meditations  of  my  heart,  be  acceptable  in 
thy  sight,  O  Lord,  my  strength,  and  my 
redeemer." 


"TILL  CHRIST   APPEARS." 

ON  the  crest  of  a  high  hill  above  a  New  Eng- 
land village  stands,  quite  alone,  an  old  white 
church,  built  after  the  fashion  of  many  years  ago. 
In  the  lonely  graveyard  which  surrounds  this 
church  lies  a  long-neglected  grave,  on  the  head- 
stone of  which,  gray  with  moss,  is  cut  the  now 
almost  illegible  lettering : 

Weep  not  for  me;  dry  up  your  tears; 
I  must  lie  here  till  Christ  appears. 

The  parting  indicated  by  these  lines  was  made 
more  sorrowful  by  the  hopeless  sense  of  long 
waiting  for  a  far  distant  time  when  Christ  would 
appear  and  call  the  dead  from  the  graves. 

Many  Christians  are  still  believing  that  the 
Christ  departed  with  Jesus,  because  they  think 
that  Jesus -and  the  Christ  are  identical. 

In  regard  to  this  teaching  concerning  the 
Christ,  Jesus  was  little  understood  in  his  own 
time,  and  moreover  he  is  not  yet  generally  under- 
stood. Christian  Science  is  today  accomplishing 
the  great  work  of  restoring  to  Christendom  its 
rightful  inheritance  of  the  true  knowledge  of  an 
28 


"TILL   CHRIST   APPEARS"  29 

ever-present  Christ,  who  was,  is  now,  and  ever 
will  remain  the  Saviour  of  men.  Christian  Sci- 
ence reveals  the  Christ  who  saves  men  from  all 
forms  of  human  woe,  from  sin  and  sickness,  want 
and  sorrow  and  pain.  Jesus  was  the  Saviour  of 
mortals  in  that  he  taught  and  demonstrated  the 
saving  power  of  Christ.  Jesus  said,  "Before 
Abraham  was,  I  am,"  thus  referring  to  the  eternal 
presence  of  the  Christ.  He  also  said,  "Abraham 
rejoiced  to  see  my  day/'  Prom  Abraham  to  John 
the  Baptist  the  prophets  recognized  the  fact  that 
the  Christ-truth  must  some  day  be  revealed  by 
the  Messiah.  Although  Jesus  manifested 
Christ  as  entirely  as  it  is  possible  for  humanity  / 
to  do,  he  never  taught  that  the  Christ-nature  > 
could  be  confined  to  himself.  On  the  contrary,  V 
he  spoke  of  himself  as  "the  way,"  and  Christian  ) 
Scientists  accept  him  as  the  perfect  example-^/ 
as  the  Wayshower. 

Jesus  spent  his  life  not  only  in  preaching  but 
in  demonstrating  the  power  of  this  Christ-truth. 
He  preached  the  gospel  of  peace,  he  healed  the 
sick,  comforted  the  sorrowing,  reformed  the  sin- 
ner and  raised  the  dead.  Because  the  age  was  too 
material  to  otherwise  understand  his  teaching, 
Jesus  had  of  necessity  to  endure  the  cross,  and 
raise  himself  from  the  dead.  After  this  supreme 
demonstration  of  the  Christ-power  over  death, 
Jesus  ascended  above  the  borderland  where  spirit 
and  matter  seem  to  meet,  thus  leaving  matter 


30  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

behind  him  forever.  The  Christ-truth  was  then 
fully  demonstrated  for  all  time  and  for  all  men. 
Christ's  reappearing  today  is  a  question  of  indi- 
vidual perception  of  the  truth  for  which  Jesus 
died — through  the  understanding  of  which  he 
rose  again. 

Although  Jesus  thus  perfected  his  ministry 
on  earth,  he  knew  that  he  had  spoken  for  the  most 
part  to  unhearing  ears.  He  alone  realized  how 
little  his  disciples  had  yet  grasped  of  the  mighty 
import  of  his  life-work;  therefore  he  promised 
that  the  Comforter  should  come — even  the  spirit 
of  Truth.  This  Comforter  could  come  in  no  other 
way  than  into  the  hearts  of  men.  Christian  Sci- 
entists believe  that  the  Comforter  is  come  and  that 
the  Comforter  is  Christian  Science.  They  believe 
this  because  Christian  Science  is  gently  leading 
its  students  into  the  right  understanding  of  John's 
words  of  Revelation,  "Now  is  come  salvation, 
and  strength,  and  the  kingdom  of  our  God,  and 
the  power  of  his  Christ/'  Christian  Science  is 
proving  once  more  that  Christ  is  the  way  today, 
as  surely  as  he  was  "the  way"  twenty  centuries 
ago. 

Each  sincere  Christian  Scientist  knows  that 
he  has  a  mighty  work  before  him.  He  has  learned 
that  he  must  emulate  the  Master's  example  in  all 
ways.  Mrs.  Eddy  writes  in  "Science  and  Health 
with  Key  to  the  Scriptures"  (p.  25),  "The  divin-  ^ 
ity  of  the  Christ  was  made  manifest  in  the  hu- 


"TILL   CHRIST   APPEARS"  31 

manity  of  Jesus."  Those  who  accept  him  as 
exemplar  must  show  forth  the  presence  of  the 
Christ-spirit  by  the  same  humanity  which  was 
so  conspicuous  in  the  life  of  the  Master.  This 
humanity  must  be  revealed  in  the  same  gentleness 
and  purity,  in  the  same  loving  service,  in  the  same 
compassionate  attitude  toward  all  others.  This 
humanity  must  also  be  manifested  in  dominion 
over  evil  in  all  its  forms — in  casting  out  sickness 
as  well  as  sin.  These  evidences  of  discipleship  to 
the  Master  are  the  proofs  of  the  coming  of  Christ 
which  Christian  Science  acknowledges.  Chris- 
tian Scientists  say,  as  did  Jesus,  "Believe  me  for 
the  very  works'  sake." 

Every  Christian  Scientist  knows,  when  he 
heals  the  simplest  form  of  disease  through  the 
operation  of  Christian  Science,  that  since  God 
the  Father  is  the  divine  Mind,  therefore  Christ 
the  son  is  the  divine  idea  which  coexists  with 
the  Father.  He  knows  that  since  Truth  is  eter^ 
nal,  the  Christ  was  never  born  and  has  never 
died.  He  knows  that  the  Christ-truth  is  available 
to  every  man,  here  and  now.  Every  Christian 
Scientist  who  has  demonstrated  in  ever  so  small 
a  degree  the  power  of  the  Christ-truth  over  evil, 
knows  that  his  Redeemer  liveth ;  he  knows  that 
he  need  not  pass  through  a  grave  in  order  to  reach 
his  Saviour;  that  he  need  not  wait  for  Christ's 
reappearing,  neither  need  he  go  outside  his  own 
heart  to  experience  salvation.  This  knowledge 


32  UPWARD   FOOTSTEPS 

which  each  man  may  prove  for  himself,  this 
knowledge  "classified  and  made  available  in  work, 
life,  or  the  search  for  truth/'  is  science,  as  the 
dictionaries  define  science.  It  is  applied  science. 
It  is  divine  Science,  because  it  is  of  God. 

Many  thousands  of  men  and  women  are  to- 
day well  and  happy  and  prosperous  because  of 
what  they  have  learned  concerning  Christ, 
through  the  study  of  Christian  Science.  They 
are  better  men  and  women,  better  citizens,  better 
friends,  better  Christians  because  they  are  chang- 
ing their  faith  for  understanding,  their  hope  for 
demonstration,  their  anticipation  of  a  future 
heaven  for  present  harmony.  "They  bow  before 
Christ,  Truth,  to  receive  more  of  his  reappearing" 
(Science  and  Health,  p.  35). 


Periodicals  Published  by 
The  Christian  Science  Publishing   Society 

Falmouth  and  St.  Paul  Sts..  Boston.  Mass..  U.  S.  A. 

The  Christian  Science  Journal 

Founded  April,  1883,  by  Mary  Baker  Eddy,  Discoverer  and  Founder 
of  Christian  Science,  and  author  of  the  Christian  Science  Text-book. 
"Science  and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures." 

This  monthly  magazine  is  the  official  organ  of  The  First  Church  of 
Christ,  Scientist,  in  Boston,  Mass. 

Subscription  price:  Domestic  territory  (including  Mexico  and  Cuba), 
one  year,  $2.00;  six  months,  $1.00;  single  copy,  20  cents.  For  Canada 
add  25  cents  and  for  all  other  countries  65  cents  annually  for  postage; 
single  copy,  for  Canada.  20  cents;  other  countries.  25  cents. 

Christian   Science  Sentinel 

A  weekly  newspaper  for  the  home,  published  every  Saturday,  con- 
taining news  items  of  general  interest,  and  contributed  and  selected 
articles,  testimonies  of  healing,  and  timely  editorials  in  connection  with 
the  Christian  Science  movement. 

Subscription  price:  Domestic,  one  year,  $2.00;  six  months,  $1.00; 
single  copy,  5  cents.  For  Canada  add  45  cents  and  for  all  other 
countries  95  cents  annually  for  postage;  single  copy,  for  Canada.  6  cents; 
other  countries,  7  cents. 

Der  Herold  der  Christian  Science 

A  monthly  magazine  printed  in  German.  It  contains  original  and 
translated  articles  bearing  upon  Christian  Science,  testimonies  of 
healing,  also,  as  a  supplement,  the  Lesson-Sermons  for  the  following 
month  which  are  read  at  the  Sunday  services  in  all  Christian  Science 
churches. 

Subscription  price:  Domestic  and  Canada,  one  year,  $1.00;  six  months. 
50  cents;  single  copy,  10  cents.  For  all  other  countries  add  25  cents 
annually  for  postage;  single  copy,  12  cents. 


The  Christian  Science  Monitor 

A  daily  newspaper  published  every  afternoon,  except  Sunday,  of 
world-wide  scope,  containing  current  news,  and  particularly  designed 
for  those  desiring  a  high-class  publication  in  the  home. 

Subscription  price:  Domestic  and  Canada,  one  year,  $5.00;  six  months, 
$2.50.  For  all  other  countries  add  $3.00  annually  for  postage.  For 
Greater  Boston  postal  district.  56.00  a  year  by  carrier. 

The  Christian  Science  Quarterly 

Published  January,  April,  July,  and  October. 

Contains  the  Lesson-Sermons  which  are  read  at  the  Sunday  services 
throughout  the  year  in  all  the  Christian  Science  churches. 

Subscription  price:  In  the  United  States,  Canada,  Mexico,  and  Cuba, 
one  year,  50  cents;  single  copy,  15  cents.  For  all  other  countries  add 
10  cents  annually  for  postage;  single  copy,  18  cents.  3 


I 


13  IS 
JUN    12  1933 


9GT 


193ft 


MAY  2  5  1955  L« 


r£B291958LO 


Caylord  Bros. 

Makers 
Syracuse.  N.  Y. 

PAT.  JAN.  21,  1998 


4128 


UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA  LIBRARY 


